Will This Idea Survive?

Recent discoveries raise new doubts that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

A research team is questioning the widely accepted hypothesis that dinosaurs
were wiped out by a giant asteroid impact on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico
(Chicxulub). These geoscientists looked at the fossils above and below the layer
of sediment left by the asteroid and found the same species—52 in all—both before
and after the impact layer.

Since they believe the layers above the asteroid accumulated slowly after the
impact—about 300,000 years for 30 feet (9 m) of sediment—the researchers believe
the species survived 300,000 years after the asteroid impact.*

The young-earth model offers an alternative view. If the global Flood was the
result of major earth movements and catastrophes, including supervolcanoes and
asteroid impacts, then all the animals on land were killed in rapid succession
and buried under as much as several thousand feet of sediment. This burial occurred
in a matter of weeks and months, not hundreds of thousands or millions of years.

*Keller et al., “New Evidence Concerning the Age and Biotic Effects of the
Chicxulub Impact in NE Mexico,” Journal of the Geological Society (166):
393–411.

Answers Magazine

October – December 2009

When it comes to God’s marvelous creation, nothing compares to the amazing design of the human body. From the protective garment of skin to the engineering of our bones and new discoveries about our brain, this issue is packed with testimony to the Master Designer.